€1.8 billion reasons to tackle energy poverty in Ireland – Pre-Budget Submission from EnergyCloud Ireland

As Chairperson of EnergyCloud Ireland I am honoured to be able to lead the volunteer Board. To date the organisation has been volunteer led and the process is underway to register as a charity. To enable EnergyCloud Ireland to support more families in energy poverty across Ireland, we are putting a full time executive team in place.

EnergyCloud Ireland was established as a not-for-profit social enterprise to specifically help to tackle energy poverty, by using surplus renewable energy.

The work of EnergyCloud is hugely important and I am delighted to be able to lend my experience to this social enterprise and to help use surplus renewable energy to tackle fuel poverty.

I have been fortunate to work across all parts of the energy sector in Ireland and globally and alongside the rest of our volunteer Board, we are bringing this collective experience to EnergyCloud.

The much needed transition to renewable energy provides an opportunity for us collectively to address fuel poverty, through collaboration and innovation.

For me, EnergyCloud is a technical bridge between large renewable energy generators and people living in fuel poverty. EnergyCloud helps keep windfarms ‘on’, reduces curtailment, and ensures that we increase the decarbonisation of our electricity system. At the same time, through the cloud, through a signal sent to an immersion or a heat pump in someone’s home, we are able to offer free electricity. Why? Without this technology, we would have to turn off the wind farm at times of excess generation.

Ireland is wasting nearly half a billion euros of renewable wind energy a year. This has to stop and one of the means we can do that is to offer free tanks of hot water to those who are in or at risk of fuel poverty.

EnergyCloud is made up of people from all facets of the industry – and all these people have come together because this is a social enterprise focussed on using wasted energy, with an instant technological solution.

John Mullins

Chairperson, EnergyCloud Ireland

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